Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-26
FRIDAY. ...... AUGUST 26, 1887.
Governor Camoron's Talk.


VIE were not more disappointed in
General MAHoNE's references to the
deb, question in his recent manifesto
than We were in Governor CANERoSs
references to MALONE in the report
which we published yesterday of an
interview between him and press
representative. Governor CAMERON is
as modest as General MALONE is i'm
modest in the utterances which he makes
to the public. He does not fight the
devil with fire. We might say that
there is nothing peculiarly forcible or
striking in what he says.
When Governor CAMERON AYERS
that to the Republican party and the
laws passed by it in 1882 and 1888
is due, in his judgment. the credit
for having relieved Virginia from
a bankIupty then present, and for
having given to the Treasury SIX
years of comparative immunity from
invasion by the coupon, he forgets
that it was the same Governor CAMERON
who in his annual message to the Gen
eral Assembly in 1888 wrote rs follows !:
But these measures (the Riddle
berger bill and coupon-killers) c0nSt-
fUfc IN no sense Il settlement of the
dcJt. 1t is thus apparent that
while the new bonds have been ready
for delivery during period covering
more than twelve months, the amount
funded under the Riddleberger bill has
been less than 8 per cent OF the entire
debt"
"Within a much shorterperiOd
under the McCulloch bill more than
eight millions of bonds were surren-
derCd, and yet that measure utterly
failed to settle the debt"
Governor CAMERON recommended.
therefore, various changes in that Re
publican legislation. He also said:
THE question now is not whether
the General Assembly will give mega
tive support to an attempt which Is no
settlement" &C., &c, &c. Our italics. ]
Ii, therefore, as MALONE and his fol-
lowers constantly affirm, the Demo-
Gratis INDUCED in new legislation on the
subject of the State debt, it was done
after a Republican Governor had re-
commended new legislation, and had
declared emphatically that the ERE
publican legislation was "no settle
ment." We quote Governor CAME
RoN's description of that legislation as
an all-sufiicient reply to the charge, so
persistently made by Mahoneites, that
the Democrats legislated all the virtue
out Of the RIDDLEBERGER bill. 1t Is
also an unanswcrable reply to Governor
CAMERoN's present ayeIment that "it
may or may not be the fault or the mis-
fortune of the Democrats that the RID
DLEBERGER bill has ceased to do the
work" Governor CAMERON testihes
that that bill had proved to be "no
settlement" before the Democrats at
tempted to make it " do its work"
Governor CAMEaoN's protest against
MAHoXE's methods is feeling ac-
knowledgmcnt OF the tyranny of Ma,
HONE. 1t Will, however. rather please
than displease the negroes whom Ma
HONE would hike such men as CAMERON
"to officer" The negroes will not re-
volt because their white allies OF a few
wears ago now find MAHoNE's yoke in
tolerable They will rather exult over
these kickers" Nor will MALONE be
greatly disturbed because he is charged
with being a party boss. He will have
no further use for the Republican party
OF Virginia when it ceases to be his
servant. When the party gets its foot
into the stirrup MALONE will "step
down and out"